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During the recent past, the importance of allelopathy in nature as well as in agroecosystems has attracted worldwide attention. In the beginning, allelopathic studies were limited to the effect of one plant on the other, without much knowledge about the chemicals responsible for such effects. Later, active involvement of scientists belonging to various disciplines, made allelopathy a multidisciplinary subject. Consequently, several allelochemicals which were at the helm of the entire allelopathic affair were isolated, identified and their effects were studied not only on germination, growth or metabolism but also at the molecular level. These developments slowly transformed allelopathic research from basic to applied, and ideas were floated to exploit allelopathy/allelochemicals in various ways in agriculture and forestry (Rice, 1984; Thompson, 1985; Putnam and Tang, 1986; Waller, 1987). We started working with allelochemicals during 1976 and remained concerned mainly with exploring various aspects of allelopathy that may lead to increased crop production. In this chapter we shall discuss some of our work on the potential of allelochemicals in pest control, crop rotation and also discuss the implications of allelopathy in agroforestry, a relatively younger aspect of allelopathic research.
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Rizvi, S.J.H., Rizvi, V. (1992). Exploitation of allelochemicals in improving crop productivity. In: Rizvi, S.J.H., Rizvi, V. (eds) Allelopathy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2376-1_25
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